American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Hannigan, Robert E. | Copyright information

American Empire: Roosevelt's Geographer and the Prelude to Globalization. By Neil Smith. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xxvii, 557. $39.95.)

This study focuses on the life of Isaiah Bowman, a prominent American geographer in the era of the two world wars. The author has drawn on the evidently voluminous Bowman papers as well as a wide number of other sources.

Bowman taught at Yale, during which time he undertook well-publ...

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